Lyn Lepore

Lynette Lepore, (9 October 1961 – 8 January 2025) was an Australian Paralympic tandem cyclist who won three medals at the 2000 Sydney Paralympics including a gold medal. In 1998, with Paul Lamond she competed at the World Disabled Cycling Championships in Colorado Springs in track and road events but they did not medal. a silver medal in the Women's 1 km Time Trial Tandem open event and a bronze medal in the Women's Individual Pursuit Open event, with her pilot Lynette Nixon. In 2000, she received an Australian Sports Medal.

Lepore appealed against Kieran Modra's placement in the Australian Paralympic cycling team at the 2004 Athens Games, in a case that was successful at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Leading up to the games, Modra was piloted by David Short and Robert Crowe for sprint and endurance events, respectively. The appeal was on the grounds that Lepore deserved her place in the team because when each of Modra's pilot–rider combinations was counted separately, she had a higher rank than Modra. The day before the opening ceremony, the Australian Paralympic Committee successfully appealed to the International Paralympic Committee to give Modra an extra place in the team. Lepore did not win any medals with her tandem pilot Jenny Macpherson at the 2004 Games due to a crash on their opening event leaving them both injured. She and her two sisters were born with inherited retinal dystrophy, which involves having tunnel vision, night blindness and kidney disease. Her nephew Adam Reeves donated one of his kidneys to her in 2016.